Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the communication requirements comprises a current reliability level for the one or more of the plurality of routing paths.
5. The method of claim 3, wherein the routing path quality of service information comprises a reliability history for the one or more of the plurality of routing paths.
6. The method of claim 3, wherein the routing path quality of service information comprises a future reliability estimate for the one or more of the plurality of routing paths.
7. The method of claim 3, wherein the routing path quality of service information comprises bit jitter information.
8. The method of claim 3, wherein the routing path quality of service information comprises security information.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the error coding distributed routing protocol comprises an identity of the plurality of routing paths.
11. The method of claim 9, wherein the error coding distributed routing protocol comprises a number of subsets of encoded data slices for the set of encoded data slices.
12. The method of claim 9, wherein the error coding distributed routing protocol comprises desired routing performance for one or more of the first and second subsets of the set of encoded data slices.
13. The method of claim 9, wherein the error coding distributed routing protocol comprises a request for multiple path transmission for the sending of the set of encoded data slices to the set of storage units.
14. The method of claim 9, wherein the error coding distributed routing protocol comprises a capacity estimate of the plurality of routing paths.
15. The method of claim 9, wherein the error coding distributed routing protocol comprises a priority indicator for at least one of the first and second subsets of the set of encoded data slices.
16. The method of claim 9, wherein the error coding distributed routing protocol comprises a performance indicator for at least one of the first and second subsets of the set of encoded data slices.
17. The method of claim 1, wherein the first routing path comprises a first plurality of relay units, and wherein the second routing path comprises a second plurality of relay units.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein a relay unit of the second plurality of relay units is included in the first plurality of relay units.
Unknown
November 14, 2023
Browse 5M+ US patents with plain-English claim translations and AI-generated analysis.